Quote Originally Posted by DragoAskani View Post
Why do you think that SGE has higher hps then scholar? Seems quite the opposite if they have to move at all. They do have of course benefit of being able to choose the recipient of the kardia heals. You can't base anything off potency since those aren't final and just have to look at the kit. While I will be playing sage as my main, its shielding is inferior, its spread coverage is inferior because of the abilities tied to its physical location. If I recall correctly alot of its aoes have a tighter range then scholars as well. They are also the most immobile healer and punished the most by having to move of all 4.
For the sake of your argument, I will completely disregard potency (even though Potency as it stands right now puts SGE clearly in the lead)

SGE's shielding is not inferior to SCH. All of SGE's shielding GCDs can be cast while moving, giving SGE numerous situations where they would be favorable.
I also don't really understand people like you saying SGE is immobile. Each healer now has tremendous slide cast and movement potential. SGE can also gather Addersting stacks by pre-shielding before pull or during transition.
SCHs are required to save an energy drain for movement and retain their opportunity cost for Aetherflow. SGE can freely use Addersgall (Allowing for free Kerachole Damage Reduction and Regen without the placement restrictions of Soil)
Both SCH and SGE have roughly the same range on all healing abilities showcased thus far (several exceptions: Fey Blessing, Seraph, Pneuma, Physis II)
Most importantly, SGE has Prognosis, a Medica/Helios variant.

I believe the only real advantage SCH has over the other healers is Expedient and Displaced Healing. While WHM and AST have several decent options for displaced healing, SGE really doesn't have anything in that category, except for Pneuma, which has a very large 25m radius.